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![People gather at Washington Square Park and march the streets with placards and Palestinian flags within a demonstration in support of Palestinians in New York City, on February 8, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0216-palestine-protest-400x300.jpg)
We Can’t Watch Genocide and Do Nothing. Now Is the Time for Renewed BDS.
Boycott, divestment and sanctions offer a collective way to pressure Israel toward a ceasefire and an end to apartheid.
![Palestinian children wait in line to receive food prepared by volunteers for Palestinian families displaced to Southern Gaza due to Israeli attacks, between rubble of destroyed buildings in Rafah, Gaza, on February 9, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0215_rafah-400x300.jpg)
Famine Expert: Israel’s Starvation of Gaza Has No Parallel in Modern Times
“The speed of deterioration of humanitarian conditions is absolutely terrifying,” the expert said.
![A Palestinian student walks out of a UNRWA school with a lunchbox in her hand at al-Am'ari Refugee Camp after funding cuts to UNRWA in Ramallah, West Bank, on February 3, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0215-unrwa-400x300.jpg)
Ireland Pledges $21M for UNRWA, Slams Israel’s “Disinformation Campaign”
Roughly 70 percent of aid to the UNRWA has been suspended by countries like the US and Germany.
![This picture taken during a media tour organized by the Israeli army on February 8, 2024, shows an Israeli soldier standing in an evacuated compound of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0214-unrwa-400x300.jpg)
UNRWA Head Says Agency Fired Employees Accused by Israel Without Proof of Claims
Countries defunding the agency have cited the terminations as proof of Israel’s allegations.
![A large plume of smoke is seen on the horizon from Israeli airstrikes against Palestinian civialians](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0214-israel-rafah-400x300.jpg)
IDF Sets Its Sights on Southern Gaza Hospital Full of Sheltering Civilians
More than 8,000 people are believed to be inside Nasser Hospital, and around 400 are reportedly in critical condition.
![Residents inspect the heavily damaged Al-Huda Mosque as a result of Israeli attacks on Rafah, Gaza, on February 12, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0213-rafah-r-400x300.jpg)
US Is Breaking at Least 6 Laws With Assistance to Israel, Veterans’ Group Says
Every person involved in arms transfers to Israel at the State Department is culpable, Veterans for Peace says.
![President Joe Biden departs the White House and stops to talk to the press on his way to an event in Miami, Florida, on January 30, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0213-joe-biden-400x300.jpg)
Frustrated by Netanyahu, Biden Is Under Pressure to Condemn Israeli Atrocities
Arab and Muslim Americans demand Biden condemn Israel’s massacre in Rafah and the killing of Palestinian American teens.
![A digital illustration of Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, depicting her as having multiple arms signing both "ASL" and "I am helping you", with the sign for outward-directed "help" in ASL shown in the background.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_02090-asl2-400x300.jpg)
What Can Deaf Philosophy Teach the World — and How Will It Change It?
Deaf philosophy is opening up new worlds, challenging us all to see hearing disabilities not as a loss but as a gain.
![Palestinians wait in food queues that a cookhouse distributes with their containers for hours despite cold weather as Israeli attacks continue in Deir Al Balah of Gaza on February 2, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0209-gaza-hunger-2-400x300.jpg)
As Israel Starves Gaza, 1 in 10 Children Under 5 Are Now Acutely Malnourished
The rate of acute malnourishment among these young children is at over 16 percent in northern Gaza.
![Many Palestinian families take refuge under harsh conditions at a school affiliated to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) at the Daraj neighborhood as the Israeli attacks continue in Gaza City, Gaza, on February 6, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0208-unrwa-400x300.jpg)
Report: Canadian Officials Cut Off UNRWA Despite Not Seeing Evidence of Claims
Israeli officials have reportedly refused to cooperate with a UN investigation into the allegations against UNRWA.